EDITOR'S TAIjLE. 



Notices of BooIt=f, ^Damp^!ct5, ^c. 



Transactioxs of the Xoetdwestekx Feuit Gkowees' Association. Third ^Uinual Meeting, held at Chicago, Oct 

 4thto7lh, 1S53. 



This enterprising association is prosecuting its duties witli true western energy and suc- 

 cess. "We liave perused their late proceedings with great pleasure, not merely for the in- 

 formation we have been able to gather from them, but because they indicate a great degree 

 of intelligence, and especially a spirit of inquiry and communicativeness among cultivators 

 that cannot fail to be of great benefit to the Western States, and aid materially in advan- 

 cing pomological science in general. 



Already we see enough of the fruit-growing capacity ot that wonderfully fertile region 

 to warrant the belief that fruit culture is there to become a most important pursuit. Such 

 apples as have been sent us by the Messrs. Avert, of Burlington, and others, we have 

 never yet seen equalled for size and beauty. The climate, to be sure, has its difficulties ; 

 but then courageous men of the west know exactly how to meet and conquer difficulties. 

 They have been well schooled in this matter. We intended to run through the discussions, 

 and note the more important points, but we find we can not at this time. 



In addition to the regular business proceedings of the Convention, Ave find an address, 

 delivered on the first evening, by J. A. Wight, Esq., editor of the Prairie Farmer^ and an 

 excellent address it is — truthful, harmonious and poetic. Mr. Wight is no less at home in 

 recounting the pleasure and profits of horticulture than he is in discussing the topics of 

 prairie farming. A letter was read from Prof. Kirtland, of Ohio, on the Pear, which we 

 shall give in our next number. 



A resolution was passed, calling on each member to furnish " a list of such fruits as have 

 been tested in his neighborhood, and have proved positively good." This was a very good 

 way to get at some practical results, and we give below these lists by twenty-one members : 



"Apples for general cultivation, by L. Montague, having tested the same some twelve years: 

 Summer Fruit — Red Astraean, Prince's Early Harvest, Benning Stripe, Early Golden Sweet, 

 Sweet Bough. Fall Fruit — Alexander, Shaker Apple, Shaker Red Streak, Fall Pippin, Rambo, 

 Mother Apple, White Bellflower. Fall and Winter Fruit — ^Scollop Gilliflower. Winter Fruit — 

 Westfield Seeknofurther, Baldwin, Esopus Spitzenburg, Vandervere Pippin, Oldtown Pippin, 

 Putnam Russet, Golden Russet, Rawles' Janet, Milam, Bellmont, Royal Pippin, Talman's Sweet. 



" By B. Hathaway, Little Prairie Ronde, Mich. : Summer — Canada Sweet, Earlj- Harvest, 

 Summer Rose, Early Strawberry, Sweet Bough, Tart Bough, Golden Sweet, Carolina June, S. 

 Rambo. Fall — Fall Pippin, Maiden's Blush, Wine Apple (of the West). Winter — Rambo, Ameri. 

 can Golden Russet, Spitzenburg, Baldwin, Black Apple, Rox Russet, Westfield Seeknofurther, 

 Rhode Island Greening, Swaar, Gates, and Jonathan. 



"Fruits for general and extensive cultivation in St. Joseph coiinty, Ind., hj Wm. H. Loomi.?, 

 South Bend, Ind.: Apples. — Summer — Red Astraean, Large Sweet Bough, Early Harvest, 

 Golden Sweeting, Summer Rose, Summer Queen, Carolina Red June. Fall — St. Lawrence, Fall 

 Pippin, Maiden's Blush, Jersey Sweet, Fall Red. Winter — Baldwin, Bellflower, yellow, Bell- 

 flower, white, Famuese, Jonathan, Ladies' Sweet, Lady Apple (for a long-keeping, dessert fruit), 

 Northern Spy, YeUow Newtown Pippin, Pomme Gri.sc, Rawles' Janet (never fail), Rambo, Rhode 

 Island Greening, Roxbury Russet, Swaar, Spitzenburg Esopus, Talman's Sweet, Vandervere. 

 Pears. — Dearborn's Seedling, Stevens' Genesee, Madeleine, Ranssellit Stuttgard, Bloodgood, Bart- 

 lett, Belle Leucrative, Napoleon, Duchess d'Angoulcme, Flemish Beauty, Louise Bonne d'Jersey, 

 Seekel, White Doyenne, Tyson, Vicar of Winkfield, Beurre Die!, Passe Colmar Bufl'um, Doyenne 



